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“I wish I had the strength to make an outcast of myself.”

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Hal Duncan

Hal Duncan, born on October 21, 1971, is a renowned fiction writer from Scotland. His works are known for their unique literary style and rich imagination, which have won him a dedicated readership. more

“Christianity dates from the individual birth of a redeeming god; Islam, from the birth of a community, of a new kind of state, which did not have its basis in either blood or place. Islam differs from Christianity and Buddhism in that it became, after the Hegira, something different from a teaching propagated in the framework of a society already formed (a local or blood community). It was the establishment of a society based on the new teaching.”

Religion Christianity Society Muslim

Book:The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption

Source: The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption

“This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.”

Death Evil Dangerous

Book:A Feast for Crows

Source: A Feast for Crows

“Yet at the same time I want to untether my heart, toss it up into the sky and let it take wing. There's a wildness here that, if nothing else, holds promise, possibility. Who needs society? What has it ever done for us?”

Society Sky Wings Wild Fly Wildness

Book:The Witch of Willow Hall

Source: The Witch of Willow Hall

“I couldn’t understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another—and that the systems weren’t just about belief.”

Society Belief Systems Jordan Peterson

Book:12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Racism is not on rise today, it just started to get socially viral...”

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Author:Usman Aman

“… a woman that has a career is looked at as self-sufficient and her own man; she may not need one in her life. She is seen as lacking femininity, household un-savvy, and not a wife material.”

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Book:Higher Heels, Bigger Dreams

Source: Higher Heels, Bigger Dreams

“Hell, can you imagine if crayons were all one color? Me neither!”

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Book:Men

Source: Men

“But, to judge the action fairly, we must transport ourselves to the age when it happened.”

History Society Morality Judgement

Book:History of the Conquest of Mexico

Source: History of the Conquest of Mexico

“For me family and society are one.”

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Book:Revolution Indomable

Source: Revolution Indomable

“You know about psychosis, Doctor. You should recognize the symptoms. Grandiose delusions. Religious mania. Paranoid violence. Sounds like society to me.”

Society

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